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Graduate Studies Calendar 2021-2022 Courses of Instruction Course Descriptions S Software Engineering SENG
Software Engineering SENG

For more information about these courses, see the Department of Computer ScienceĀ ucalgary.ca/cpsc and the Department of Electrical and Software Engineering schulich.ucalgary.ca/electrical-computer.

Graduate Courses
Software Engineering 605       Industrial Topics in Software Engineering
A study of practical approaches of industrial relevance to students specializing in Software Engineering.
Course Hours:
1.5 units; (3-1)
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT
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Software Engineering 607       Special Topics in Software Engineering
A study of problems of particular interest to students specializing in Software Engineering.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-1) or (3-0)
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT
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Software Engineering 608       Analytical Software Project Management
Application of analytical methods such as clustering, classification, regression, machine learning, optimization, simulation on questions of managing artefacts and processes in consideration of the impact on time, cost, resource, and quality of software projects.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-3)
Also known as:
(formerly Software Engineering 607.08)
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Software Engineering 609       Special Topics in Software Engineering
A study of problems of particular interest to students specializing in Software Engineering.
Course Hours:
1.5 units; (3-1)
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT
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Software Engineering 611       Requirements Engineering I
The elicitation, modelling, expression, and validation of requirements.
Course Hours:
1.5 units; (3-1)
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Software Engineering 615       Agile Software Engineering
Investigation and application of agile software development practices.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-1)
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Software Engineering 615 and Computer Science 601.93 will not be allowed.
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Software Engineering 622       Software Release Planning
Product release planning covers systematic methods, tools and techniques for defining the functionality of a sequence of product releases in incremental development. The planning and re-planning is established as a systematics process trying to optimize resources available towards the functionality most requested by customers and stakeholders.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-1)
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Software Engineering 622 and 607.25 will not be allowed.
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Software Engineering 627       Software Engineering Decision Support
Provides methodological foundations of software engineering decision-making and how to apply them to make better decisions about processes, products, and resources as well as for selection of tools and techniques.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-1)
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Software Engineering 629       Software Engineering Standards and Models
Formal description of algorithms for current software engineering standards and models. Trends and future development in software engineering standardization.
Course Hours:
1.5 units; (3-0)
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Software Engineering 629 and 609.17 will not be allowed.
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Software Engineering 637       Dependability and Reliability of Software Systems
Principles of software dependability techniques, and techniques to improve and predict software reliability.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-0)
Prerequisite(s):
Admission to Electrical and Software Engineering graduate program or Computer Science graduate program; or consent of the Department.  
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Software Engineering 637 and 521 will not be allowed.
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Software Engineering 639       Advanced Software Testing
Advanced techniques, tools and concepts in software testing including: Agile testing, acceptance testing, GUI testing, test coverage analysis, automated testing, and new developments in testing research.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-0)
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Software Engineering 639 and 607.22 will not be allowed.
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Software Engineering 641       Software Evolution and Reuse
Phenomena and approaches involved in the evolution and reuse of large-scale software, including design for modifiability and tool support. Strengths and weaknesses of industrially-current techniques as well as recent research results.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-0)
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Software Engineering 641 and 541 will not be allowed.
Also known as:
(formerly Computer Science 601.33)
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Software Engineering 643       Automated Software Engineering
Discusses the main techniques for automating software engineering tasks such as requirement analysis, design, development, and testing. The covered automation techniques are based on concepts from data science, search-based software engineering, and model-driven software engineering. Focuses on the fundamental techniques and algorithms in each category with examples.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-0)
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Software Engineering 643 and 607.26 will not be allowed.
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Software Engineering 652       Software Engineering Project
A project in either software development or software best practice and experience.
Course Hours:
6 units; (3S-0)
Prerequisite(s):
Consent of the department.
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Software Engineering 652 and Electrical Engineering 698 will not be allowed.
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Software Engineering 696       Agent-Based Software Engineering
Principles and practices of engineering agent-based software systems.
Course Hours:
3 units; (3-0)
Prerequisite(s):
Admission to Electrical and Software Engineering graduate program or Computer Science graduate program; or consent of the Department.  
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Software Engineering 696 and Computer Science 609 will not be allowed for programs offered by the Department of Computer Science.
Also known as:
(formerly Software Engineering 697)
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